TOM CHAMBERLAIN: MY BRAVE YOUNG BROTHER by Rosemary Pardoe Photograph of Tom Chamberlain reproduced courtesy of the Maine State Archives Introduction The original, five thousand word, version of Tom Chamberlain: 'My Brave Young Brother' appeared in the April 1997 issue (no. 53) of Crossfire, the Journal of the American Civil War Round Table (UK). This latest expansion (January 17, 2002) is ...

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828-1914) A Bowdoin College professor, Joshua L. Chamberlain went to the Maine state capital to offer his services in 1862. Offered the colonelcy of a regiment, he declined, according to John J. Pullen in The 20th Maine, preferring to start a little lower and learn the business first. He was made lieutenant colonel of the regiment on August 8. His later ...